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The horse bit and bridle kicked off ancient empires – a new giant dataset tracks the societal factors that drove military technology

  • Written by Peter Turchin, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Connecticut
imageAncient military innovations – like the bit and bridle that enabled mounted horseback riding – changed the course of history.Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin/British Museum via WikimediaCommons , CC BY-NC

Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the next millennium the...

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